WH 1753
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1753
- Transliteration
-
l zhmn bn yʿly h- wqʿt
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- Translation
-
Zhmn son of Yʿly is at this watering-hole
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: h-wqʿt "this stone"
- Commentary
- The author seems to have omitted the last two letters of his father's name and then added them above wqʿt. For the interpretation of wqʿt see Al-Jallad & Jaworska (in press). The inscription below WH 1753 is WH 1843. It is not clear why WH separated them.
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Associated Inscriptions
- [SafDict] Al-Jallad, A. & Jaworska, K. A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Leiden: Brill, 2019
- [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Site
- WH Cairn 23, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Watering
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0012606
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16 Sep, 2024
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